Apparatus for pitching kegs or barrels.



' PATENTED MAY 14. 1901.

e. B. O'NEILL. AIPARAIUS'FOR mcnme KEGS on BARRBLS.

z sums-sum a APPLIOATIOI FILED BBQ. 17, 1904.

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UNITED STATES GEORGE E. ONEILL, OF BROOKLYN,

PATENT OFFICE.

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONF-I-IALF TO JOHN T. WILLOUGHBY, OF BROOKLYN, NEWYORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application fil December 17,1904. Serial No. 237,302.

To all who/'11, [it HI/03]] concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. ONEILL, residing in the borough ofBrooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain.new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Pitching Kegs or Barrels,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In order to simplify this specification I shall refer througl'iout tothe barrels as kegs.

It will be understood, however, that either kegs or barrels can beoperated upon. I

In the accompanying drawing I have shown crudely, but with sufficientclearn'ess to enabie one skilled in the art to make the same, a machineconstituting one embodiment of my invention.

In this drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine, and Fig. 2 is asectional elevation thereof.

In the drawing, a indicates a suitable pillar sitting in a pitch vat 6.Su ported upon ball bearings, or otherwise suita lysup orted by-thepillar a, is a rotary table d. Tiis rotary table is shown as providedwith a downturned edge e, in which edge gear teeth f (see Fig. 1) areout, with which gear teeth a suitable pinion 9 gears, in order that, byrotating the pinion, a movement of rotation may be imparted to thetable.

Mounted upon the table are a series of cradles or keg sup orts h. Thesecradles or keg sup orts are adiapted to support kegs 1 Imme iately belowthe cradles h are itch boxes 7', provided with suitable nozzles and communicating with the itch vats b by a port Z closed by a swinging c eckvalve m.

Pipes 0 communicating with the pitch boxes 7' serve to bring airpressure to the itch boxes. These pi es extend into the ub of thetraveling ta 1e, and are adapted to come one at a time opposite thedelivery of the air pipe 9. This air pipe g is provided with acontrolling valve 1" provided with a handle 8 for controlling the airpressure.

It will be understood that the pitch is ke t in a heated conditioneither by fire below t e pitch pot or vat, or steam coils t, and thatthe air pressure serves to drive the pitch into the keg. The airpressure, of course, will be a plied when each pi e 0 comes opposite t eelivery end p of t e air pressure pipe. It might happen, however, thatwhen the parts have reached this position there is no keg on theparticular cradle which. is in the active position. If some means werenot provided whereby the apparatus will be prevented from operating,boiling pitch. would be scat tered around the room. In order to obviatethis difficulty I provide a safety device which at the same time alsoserves as an operating device.

The safety device may be described as follows :Upon a bracket orstanchion u is pivoted the end of a lever 12 carrying a heavy roller to,which is adapted to bear upon a keg, as shown, the free end of the lever11 being pivoted at as to a link y pivoted at 2 to the operatingarm s ofthe valve r for controlling the air pressure.

In order to relieve the air pressure, so that the pitch boxes may bekept full, I provide a cut away portion 1 in the standard of thepillara. The operation of the machine and the method of pitching kegswill now be described in detail: The kegs are preliminarily prepared forpitching This is done by subj ecting them to the action of superheatedsteam at a pressure of about 150 pounds for several seconds. Thesuperheated steam is at a. sufficiently high temperature to soften andmelt the pitch, which, therefore, runs steam.

The detail 0 eration of the machine is as follows :The eggs are placedupon the eradles with the nozzles inserted into their bung holes. Thetable is given a motion of rotation and as air pi e 0 comes op osite thepipe p air pressure orces the liquid pitch upward through the nozzlefrom the pitch box. The pitch is heated to a tern erature of about 130degrees preferably, an is operated under pounds of air pressure, theoperation of pitching the keg taking under these conditions about sixseconds. As the itch'in the various pitch boxes j becomes epleted, asthe table revolves the ipes 0 are brought into communication with theoutlet Z,'or cut away portion, whereupon the air pressure in the box jis relieved and the pitch may flow into the box through the port I. Incase there should not be a keg upon a cradle when it comes into theoperation position, the weighted lever 12 will kee the air pressure cutoff, but the roller w Wi l serve to co-operate with the keg roller overits surface and out (if the bung hole, being carried out by themaintaining the air inlet open for operative purposes I llavingdescribed my inventiol'i, what .l claim. and desire to secure by LettersPatent is 1. In a pitcl'ling 11'] acliine, the con'ibinatiioi'i. of arotary table, a series of keg su ')orts, pitchii'lg means co-operatingwith the keg supports, means 'for operating the pitching means, and anautomatic safety device in the path of the keg in its movement forcontrol ling the admission. of fluid pressure to the rcspectivc pitchingdevices.

2. In a pitching machine, the combination of a movable table, a seriesof keg supports, pitching means co-operating with the keg supports, asource of fluid pressure, means whereby the source of fluid pressure isbrought successively into comn'iunication with the respective pitchingmeans, and an automatic safety device in the ath of the keg in itsmovement for control ing the admission of fluid pressure to therespective pitching devices.

3. In a pitching machine, the combination of a movable table, kegsupports carried thereby, ,pitching means traveling with the kegsupports substantially as described, and an automatic safety device inthe path of the keg inits movement for controlling the admission offluid pressure to the respective pitching devices.

4. In a pitching machine, the combination of a rotary table, a series ofkeg supports, a series of pitching devices moving with the said kegsupports, and an automatic safety d evice in the path of the keg in itsmovement for controlling the admission of fluid pressure to therespective pitching devices.

5. in a atching" machine, the combinatimi of a series of keg supports, atable sup]')orting the said keg supports, pitching means traveling with.the table, and an automatic safety device in the path of the keg in itsmovement for controlling the admissioi'l of fluid pressure to therespective pitching devices.

6. In a pitchil'ig inacl'i'ine, the combination of a rotating table, aseries of keg supports carried thereby, pitching means also carried bythe said table, and an automatic safety device in the path of the keg inits movement for controlling the admission of fluid pres-- sure to therespective pitching devices.

7. In a pitching machine, the combination of a rotary table, a series ofkeg supports, pitching means and an automatic safety device in the pathof the keg in its movement for controlling the admission of fluidpressure to the respective pitching devices.

8. In a pitching machine, the combination of a rotary table having kegsupports, pitch ing means, a source of fluid pressure for efleeting theoperation of the pitching means and an automatic safety device in thepath of the keg in its movement for controlling the .admission of fluidpressure to the respective pitching devices.

GEO. E. ONEILL.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. MORSE, LENA M. DAUTH.

